The ends of the world volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions
"As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a...
| Main Author: | Brannen, Peter, 1983- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Beginnings
- The end-Ordovician mass extinction
- The late Devonian mass extinction
- The end-Permian mass extinction
- The end-Triassic mass extinction
- The end-Cretaceous mass extinction
- The end-Pleistocene mass extinction
- The near future
- The last extinction.